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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Yielding
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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